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    The Americans: The National Experience

    Part of Americans Series

    Author Daniel J. Boorstin
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    $19.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    5.2"W x 7.95"H x 1.1"D  
    On sale Feb 12, 1967 | 528 Pages | 9780394703589
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize  

    This second volume of The Americans explores the problems of community and the search for a national identity.

    "This is the history of a nation from 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes.' I can only repeat that this is a fine book--controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work."--New York Times Book Review

    "This exceptionally good book...abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us."--The New Yorker

    Also available from Vintage: Americans: The Colonial Experience and Americans: The Democratic Experience.
    Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004. View titles by Daniel J. Boorstin
    • WINNER | 1966
      Francis Parkman Prize
    "Boorstins achievement is to compel us to see again, ranged in order, the whole mass of attitudes and mechanisms that arise from American difference, and to display his material so abundantly and ingeniously that we see aspects of the nations' past as if for the first time." —Marcus Cunliffe, Book Week

    "This is the history of a nation 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes. I can only repeat that this is a fine book—controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work." —George Dangerfield, The New York Times Book Review

    "This exceptionally good book . . .  abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us." —The New Yorker

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    Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize  

    This second volume of The Americans explores the problems of community and the search for a national identity.

    "This is the history of a nation from 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes.' I can only repeat that this is a fine book--controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work."--New York Times Book Review

    "This exceptionally good book...abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us."--The New Yorker

    Also available from Vintage: Americans: The Colonial Experience and Americans: The Democratic Experience.

    Author

    Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004. View titles by Daniel J. Boorstin

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    • WINNER | 1966
      Francis Parkman Prize

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    "Boorstins achievement is to compel us to see again, ranged in order, the whole mass of attitudes and mechanisms that arise from American difference, and to display his material so abundantly and ingeniously that we see aspects of the nations' past as if for the first time." —Marcus Cunliffe, Book Week

    "This is the history of a nation 'beginning again and again, under men's very eyes. I can only repeat that this is a fine book—controversial certainly, but a courageous, learned and most exciting work." —George Dangerfield, The New York Times Book Review

    "This exceptionally good book . . .  abounds in concrete, entertaining details, and in bright, original ideas about those fascinating people, us." —The New Yorker

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